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Should I use a girl or guy to sell a product/service?

5 points by youyap ↗ HN
I am starting a search engine marketing start up and I need help from someone to make me a professional video about my service.

Something like: http://www.pepperjam.com/

Do anyone know where I can get someone to make it. Any web 2.0 out there offer this type of service?

Where do I get someone to make me a professional video?

18 comments

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eru
Do you ask whether you should use somebodies service at all? or which gender you should prefer?
youyap
Somebodies and Gender
lst
Starting from your question, you seem to prefer girls.

Anyway, girls are better, and guys are better, too.

If you start to prefer a specific gender, you always exclude the other 50% of talented people.

omouse
Starting from your question, you seem to prefer girls.

You know, the letter 'i' is before the letter 'u'. He could just be used to giving the alphabetical order of things.

lst
The real difficulty here is the fact that you can't say it absolutely neutrally.
sgibat
What gender should I ... ?
lst
...and you have already 3 (including hermaphrodites).
mark-t
All things equal, I would rather see a girl, and I'd wager about 90% of the people here are in the same boat. My guess is that your audience is pretty similar to this one.

But note the first three words: all things equal. You should choose the best person for the job.

ra
Far better you look at the behavioral competencies that will make a good sales person - start from there.

Try Googleing BBI (Behavioral Based Interviews)

xugglybug
How about you just choose someone based on their talents and not what they have between their legs?
sarahfrancesca
I assume you're also looking for lower cost? Post an ad at a local school with a film program. Those kids want to augment their resumes and are often more than happy to share their talent for very little cost.